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The Jeffersonian Transformation By Henry Adams Introduction by Garry Wills The ideal introduction and companion to Adams's "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll By Alvaro Mutis Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman Introduction by Francisco Goldman Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Afloat By Guy de Maupassant Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK) Price: $10.50 (25% off)

An African in Greenland By Tete-Michel Kpomassie Translated from the French by James Kirkup Introduction by Al Alvarez "Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest—unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Alfred and Guinevere By James Schuyler Introduction by John Ashbery Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Alien Hearts By Guy de Maupassant Translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

All About H. Hatterr By G.V. Desani Introduction by Anthony Burgess Heralded by T. S. Eliot and an inspiration to Salman Rushdie, All About H. Hatterr is one of the great eccentric books of all time. Newsweek called this comedic search for a man's enlightenment "a mischievous mulligatawny that reads like a collaboration between Mrs. Malaprop and Groucho Marx". Price: $11.96 (25% off)

American Humor By Constance Rourke Introduction by Greil Marcus Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel singer to show how the popular comic imagination contributed to America's changing self-awareness. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

The Anatomy of Melancholy By Robert Burton Introduction by William H. Gass One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Price: $20.96 (25% off)

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes By Angus Wilson Introduction by Jane Smiley "After Evelyn Waugh, what? The answer is Angus Wilson, a master of mimicry, diction, intention and wit." —Edmund Wilson Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Apartment in Athens By Glenway Wescott Introduction by David Leavitt In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott offers an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

As a Man Grows Older By Italo Svevo Translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete Introduction by James Lasdun A brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Asleep in the Sun By Adolfo Bioy Casares Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine Introduction by James Sallis Bioy Casares's strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian By Nirad C. Chaudhuri Introduction by Ian Jack The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Belchamber By Howard Sturgis Introduction by Edmund White Afterword by E.M. Forster Howard Sturgis was close friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. "More Jamesian than the Master in hinting at melodrama yet keeping it at arm's length, Sturgis is an absolute modern in stirring up tensions on behalf of one of the quietest heroes in British fiction." —The New Republic Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Between the Woods and the Water By Patrick Leigh Fermor Introduction by Jan Morris Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Beware of Pity By Stefan Zweig Translated from the German by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt Introduction by Joan Acocella The most widely read author writing in German prior to the rise of the Nazis, Zweig captures the torment of betrayal in a powerful study of affliction. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Big Clock By Kenneth Fearing Introduction by Nicholas Christopher How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Black Sun By Geoffrey Wolff Black Sun is master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's picture of a brilliant and self-destructive man who sought to make his life into a work of art. Price: $14.96 (25% off)

Blood on the Forge By William Attaway Introduction by Darryl Pinckney A savage vision of the Great Migration told through a bleak and harrowing story of three brothers. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

The Bog People By P.V. Glob Introduction by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Paul T. Barber Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page By G.B. Edwards Introduction by John Fowles Curmudgeonly and wise, Ebenezer le Page recounts his eighty years on the small island of Guernsey. "A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious." — Allan Gurganus, O, The Oprah Magazine Price: $12.71 (25% off)

A Book of Mediterranean Food By Elizabeth David Foreword by Clarissa Dickson Wright Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Book of My Life By Girolamo Cardano Translated from the Italian by Jean Stoner Introduction by Anthony Grafton At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait. Price: $13.46 (25% off)

Boredom By Alberto Moravia Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson Introduction by William Weaver Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Born Under Saturn By Margot and Rudolf Wittkower Introduction by Joseph Connors A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Price: $14.21 (25% off)

Butcher's Crossing By John Williams Introduction by Michelle Latiolais The author of Stoner dismantles the myth of the making of the American west in this tale of a Harvard dropout who seeks adventure hunting one of the last great buffalo herds, but ends up losing his innocence. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Case of Comrade Tulayev By Victor Serge Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask Introduction by Susan Sontag The best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's Man's Fate and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Cassandra at the Wedding By Dorothy Baker Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg Dorothy Baker's fascinating tragicomic novel follows an unpredictable course of events in which Cassandra appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and surprisingly sympathetic. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Chaos and Night By Henry de Montherlant Translated from the French by Terence Kilmartin Introduction by Gary Indiana Don Celestino, an old anarchist still bitter about Spanish civil war, reluctantly returns to Spain after decades of exile in France. But instead of the heroic confrontation with the past he hopes for, he finds a relentlessly modern and commercialized country, one utterly unconcerned with its history. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

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